Elephants Dream in 3D World Magazine’s ‘Indie 50′

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tdw102dvd_cover.jpgI’d kind of decided to stop singing songs of praise for Elephants Dream, but this is a story I think I should share with you: Elephants Dream made it into ’3D World’s greatest independent animated 3D shorts: 1997 to 2007′.

Jim Thacker from 3D World Magazine writes:

Issue 102 of 3D World magazine, currently on sale, includes a DVD compilation of the magazine’s 50 greatest independent 3D animated shorts of the past decade — including The Blender Foundation’s own open source movie, Elephants Dream. Elephants Dream joins such award-winning shorts as Sejong Park’s Oscar-nominated Birthday Boy, Robert Bradbrook’s BAFTA-nominated Home Road Movies, and The Tale of How, winner of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival’s Special Distinction award. The films chosen for the disc span a huge range of genres, from Pixar-style comedy to abstract animation, mock-documentary and arthouse, and last over four hours in total.

The DVD also contains over seven hours of video training accompanying Weta Productions animation director Steve Lambert’s special 21-page project on modelling, texturing, rigging and animating a movie-quality dinosaur; models and textures worth over $700; and a full copy of imageSynth, Luxology’s texture-creation Photoshop plug-in, as sold for $99.

To buy a copy online, visit www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk

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    • http://thinningpictures.googlepages.com/ LoMac

      WoW!! High Five to that! I’ll have to pick up that copy.

    • http://iluvblender.googlepages.com Satish ‘ILuvBlender’ Goda

      Congratulations to team ‘Orange’. Well deserved……

    • surt

      So which issue is that? The web store lists issues by month-year, not by issue number.

    • surt

      Never mind. Judging by the thumbnail on the magazine’s website its the April issue.

    • FinSteve

      Ill order it, for some unknown bizzare mechanics of Finnish Tax, 3d world mag is in the shops here retailing at €14! in the UK its £6 or something, I don’t think the exchange rate really fits do you?!

    • JardB

      Oh my gd! The Tale of How?? That was done by 3 Cape Town people, i’m studying animation in CT presently, what an inspiration!!

      Thank you!

    • dusty

      Nice!

    • aws357

      And soon, the Elephant might be devoured by a tribes of rabid peach flavored rodents :)

    • Colezero

      This is really well deserved. Congratulations to the orange team. I bet the new O Movie is also going to be great.

    • Oso

      Unfortunatey, the issue is sold out.

    • colezero

      “Unfortunatey, the issue is sold out.”

      I wonder why………. ;)

    • ryujin

      “Unfortunately the issue is sold out.”

      Haha! I worked on that issue a bit ( well, I helped put the DVD together ). I’ll recommend to Jim that he sends PR to blendernation more often next time i see him. Blendernation has a good record for crashing servers with news posts, and it seems, selling magazines… ;)

      PS. There is some great work on the dvd, well worth checking if you can get a copy.

    • CasperN

      I got one!

    • nicolas